Improvement in inkstands



UNITED STATES PATENT Y @Enron EDWARD C. QUIN, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN INKSTANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,963, dated January2, 1877; application led November 2, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDWARD O. QUTN, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Inkstands, of which thefollowing is a specilcation My invention relates to .certainimprovements, fully described hereafter, in that class of inkstandswhich can be readily opened by a pen on dipping it into the ink, theclosing of the mouth of the inkstand being simultaneous with thewithdrawal of the pen.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure lis a vertical section f my improvedinkstand; Fig. 2, a plan view of part of the top of the stand, and Fig.3 a vertical section on the line l 2.

A is the body or reservoir of the inkstand, and B a cap, preferably ofmetal, secured t0 the neck of the reservoir by any of the means usuallyemployed in constructing metal-capped inkstands. In the cap B,immediately above the cavity A', containing the ink, is an open ing, a,closed (in the absence of the pen) by two slides, D D', adapted toguides on the cap B. There are two projections, d d, one on each slide,and when these projections are in cont-act with each other the mouth ofthe inkstand is closed. At the junction of the two slides there is adaring cavity, m, which serves as a guide f'or the pen M, one-half ofthe cavity being formed in one slide and the other -half in the otherslide. l These slides are combined with a device which tends to movethem toward each other and close the mouth of the inkstand but lthisself-closing tendency should be so triing that the slides will give wayto a pen without injuring the same when it is introduced into the cavitym, and acts as a wedge to force the said slides apart.

In order to render the slides self-closing, I prefer to use the Weightedlevers H, hung to small standards I on the cap B, each lever bearingagainst the outer end of a guided rod, K, the inner end of which bearsagainst the projection d of one of the slides.

It will be evident that one slide only may be employed, one of theprojections d being permanently attached to, or forming a part of, thecap, and the cavity m being formed partly in the cap and partly in thesingle slide. I, however, prefer to use two slides.

It will also be evident that the slide or slides may be renderedself-closing bya spring, rubber band, or other device.

I am aware that self-closing covers capable of being opened by a penhave been hinged to the cap of an inkstand; this, therefore, I do notclaim; ibut I claim as my invention- The combination, in an inkstand,ofthe cap B, with selfclosing slide or slides .D D', adapted to guideson the top of the cap, and constructed to be opened by a pen, all as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD U. QUIN. Witnesses:

HERMANN MoEssNEE, HARRY SMITH.

